@bender@twtxt.net Hm, are we talking about different dates or are there different timezone offsets for this timezone abbreviation? With EDT being UTC-4, 2025-11-02T12:00:00Z is Sunday at 8:00 in the morning local time for you. Or were did I mess up here? :-?
@prologic@twtxt.net You want me to submit a reply with āI probably wonāt show upā?
Understanding driver updates through Windows Update
Microsoft has published a set of short questions and answers about driver updates through Windows Update, and thereās one tidbit in there I found interesting. Driver datesĀ might look old, butĀ that isĀ notĀ true.Ā The driver date is descriptive infoĀ set by the driverĀ providerĀ and can be any date they choose. WhenĀ determiningĀ which driver to install, Windows Update uses targeting information set by theĀ providerĀ inside theĀ driverĀ file ⦠ā Read more
Replacing sugar with artificial sweetener may help your gut microbiome
One of the longest trials of artificial sweeteners to date found that they may increase beneficial gut bacteria, though the boost may also be related to weight loss ā Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net I canāt upload a screenshot (tried, but Yarnd simple āateā my reply). See https://zsblog.mills.io/posts/hello-zs-blog.html. Is has no date/time on it.
the single posts have no date (intended?)
What do you mean by this? š¤
@prologic@twtxt.net need to work on the CSS. For example, the tags are too big, the code blocks (and the inline ones) are too small, the single posts have no date (intended?), and so on. Itās an alpha start!
@zvava@twtxt.net Going to have to hard disagree here Iām sorry. a) no-one reads the raw/plain twtxt.txt files, the only time you do is to debug something, or have a stick beak at the comments which most clients will strip out and ignore and b) Iām sorry youāve completely lost me! Iām old enough to pre-date before Linux became popular, so Iām not sure what UNIX principles you think are being broken or violated by having a Twt Subject (Subject) whose contents is a cryptographic content-addressable hash of the āthingā⢠youāre replying to and forming a chain of other replies (a thread).
Iām sorry, but the simplest thing to do is to make the smallest number of changes to the Spec as possible and all agree on a āMagic Dateā for which our clients use the modified function(s).
@bender@twtxt.net Well honestly, this is just it. My strong position on this is quite simple:
Do the simplest thing that could work.
Itās one of the age old UNIX philosphies.
Therefore, the simplest thing⢠to do here is to just increase the hash length, mark a magic⢠date/time as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org has indicated and call it a day. Weāll then be fine for a few hundred years, at which point thereāll be no-one left alive to give a shit⢠anyway š¤£
I finally resolved my issues with hashing twts⦠with REGEX!
Dates in JavaScript are truly strange creatures.
The driverās license documents in Germany now have an expiration date. You have to renew them every 15 years. (Not the license itself, just the documents.)
I just got my renewed documents. Their expiration date says something like 01.09.40. Huh? That looks super weird to me, like an error. But no, itās 2040 ⦠Just 15 years away.
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@zvava@twtxt.net There would be only one hash for a message. Some to be defined magic date selects which hash to use. If the message creation timestamp is before this epoch, hash it with v1, otherwise hammer it through v2. Eventually, support for v1 could be dropped as nobody interacts with the old stuff anymore. But Iād keep it around in my client, because why not.
If users choose a client which supports the extensions, they donāt have to mess around with v1 and v2 hashing, just like today.
As for the school of thought, personally, Iād prefer something else, too. Iām in camp location-based addressing, or whatever it is called. There more I think about it, a complete redesign of twtxt and its extensions would be necessary in my opinion. Retrofitting has its limits. Of course, this is much more work, though.
I finally have my new (top-secret) twtxt client in a working state. Next comes the deployment, which I hope to finish tonight. Release date: TBD. Stay tuned!
@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, because, you know, even if you try entering a fake date of birth, the āalgorithmsā will move it, like a Ouija board, changing it back to the right one /s. š
Prosodical Thoughts: Debian repository key change
We have been working on some changes to our Debian/Ubuntu package repository.
If you use our repository to keep up to date with new Prosody packages, you
need to take action before 4th August 2025 to continue receiving updates
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The āaptā utility has been moving towards a new format for specifying package
repositories. If you are familiar with putting deb lines in a sources.list
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Felt the need to make this stupid reference - nobody will get, most likely. Feel free to guess (the file name and todays date, are both a hint), any other notes and opinions appreciated too, idk if I ever drew a standing one, from the front, before.
** Admitting that theyāre really never weekly notes **
While everyone is up to their eyeballs in puzzles playing Blue Prince Iāve been playing some Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword on the Gameboy Advanced. Iāve also set up the playdate to mirror at my computer and have been having fun exploring the games in season 2! Mostly just Dig! Dig! Dino!, so far.
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@bender@twtxt.net Iām not sure this is accurate, if you lookup mine:
$ whois shortcircuit.net.au 2>&1 | grep -i creat
created: 1986-03-05
I think this has to be the registrarās creation date no? š¤
@anth@a.9srv.net happy birthday, āyoungster!ā
Domain Name: NETBROS.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1193243_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.cloudflare.com
Registrar URL: https://www.cloudflare.com
Updated Date: 2025-03-29T04:08:33Z
Creation Date: 1998-04-29T04:00:00Z
Tea & Peaches: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon London Recap, Atlanta Sneak-Peek
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Date variety discovered by outback horticulturalist now grown globally
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slowing working away at my latest code project: learning PHP by recreating the 2000s fandom mainstay known as a fanlisting! itās been super fun i added a dynamic nav bar and other modifications in the latest commit
fanlistings even to this day rely on old PHP scripts dating back to the early 2000s that need whole ass mySQL or postgres DBs and are incredibly insecure. you can look at them here theyāre like super jank lol itās sad that new fanlistings have to use them because thereās no other optionsā¦.
7 to 12 and use the first 12 characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q or a (oops) š
And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! š± #Twtxt #Update
I will be adding the code in for yarnd very soon⢠for this change, with a if the date is >= 2025-07-01 then compute_new_hashes else compute_old_hashes
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Itās more like a cache, it stores things like ātimestamp of the most recent twt weāve seen per feedā or ālast modification dateā (to be used with HTTPās if-modified-since header). You can nuke these files at any time, it might just result in more traffic (e.g., always getting a full response instead of just āHTTP 304 nope, didnāt changeā).
@quark@ferengi.one Yes, I often write a couple of twts, donāt publish them, then sometimes notice a mistake and want to edit it. Youāre right, as soon as stuff is published, threads are going to break/fork by edits.
Erlang Solutions: Erlang Solutionsā Blog round-up
The tech world doesnāt slow down, and neither do we. From the power of big data in healthcare to keeping you up-to-date about fintech compliance, our latest blog posts explore the important topics shaping todayās digital world.
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Understanding Big Data in Healthcare
Replacing pico.css with simple.css along with some small UI changes
Microsoft releases Windows 11 roadmap tool to help make sense of Windows 11ās development
Iāve complained about the utter inscrutability of the Windows release process for a long time, with Microsoft seemingly using channels, build numbers, code names, date-based version numbers, and so on interchangeably, making it incredibly hard to keep track of what is being released when. It turns out even Microsoft itself started losing track, because it ⦠ā Read more
@david@collantes.us While youāre typing? I guess this could be used as a starting point (doesnāt work on the very first line):
inoremap <CR> <Esc>:r!date +"\%F \%T"<CR>A
Whatās the end goal here? š
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Can you reproduce any of this outside of your client? I canāt spot a mistake here:
$ curl -sI 'http://movq.de/v/8684c7d264/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Dgimp11%2D1.png.jpg'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 2615
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:53:17 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:34:08 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
$ curl -sI 'https://movq.de/v/8684c7d264/gimp11%2D1.png'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 131798
Content-Type: image/png
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:53:19 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:18:07 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
$ telnet movq.de 80
Trying 185.162.249.140...
Connected to movq.de.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /v/8684c7d264/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Dgimp11%2D1.png.jpg HTTP/1.1
Host: movq.de
Connection: close
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-Length: 2615
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:53:31 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:34:08 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
Connection closed by foreign host.
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Iconography of the PuTTY tools
Ah, PuTTY. Good old reliable PuTTY. This little tool is one of those cornerstone applications in the toolbox of most of us, without any fuss, without any upsells or anti-user nonsense ā it just does its job, and it has been doing its job for 30 years. Have you ever wondered, though, where PuTTYās icons come from, how they were made, and how they evolved over time? PuTTYās icon designs date from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Theyāve never had a major stylistic redesign ⦠ā Read more
Pinellas County - Long run: 8.15 miles, 00:11:43 average pace, 01:35:28 duration
had a date night last night and probably drank a bit too much. my wife followed me on the bike while we did some errands as well. hot and humid this afternoon which really dragged me down. iāll finish the rest of the HM at home.
#running
[ANN] How to run an optimized Tor node on the Monero network
This video is a walk through on how to run an optimized Tor node. I worked with Ofrnxmr on this to make sure that all the information is up-to-date and correct. The goal was to create a beginner-friendly walk through that highlights everything needed to ensure that you are sending transactions over Tor, that you are receiving incoming peer connections over Tor, and that your node will continue helping out the clearnet as well. Additionally, the config includes an option ⦠ā Read more
Ten Mysterious Stone Circles from Around the World
Stone circles of all sizes exist all over the world, most dating from the Stone and Bronze Ages. Since many of their builders did not leave behind any written accounts of them, they stand as silent witnesses to the great unknowns of our antiquity. Who built them? How? And most importantly, why? In most cases, [ā¦]
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b4n6_b4n6, not-a-money-printer propose bounties to make Monero GUI, RetoSwap, UnstoppableSwap āWhonix friendlyā
b4n6_b4n61 and not-a-money-printer2 have proposed bounties3ā4ā5 to make monero-wallet-gui6, RetoSwap7, and UnstoppableSwap8 Whonix friendly 9:
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#1 Make monero-wallet-gui whonix friendly
Total Bounty: ~0.12 XMR (to date)
#2 Make reto swap whonix friendly
To ⦠ā Read moreā`
Humane is shutting down the AI Pin and selling its remnants to HP
Humane is selling most of its company to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally until 3PM ET on February 28th, Humane says in a support document. After that date, Pins will āno longer connect to Humaneās servers.ā As a result, AI Pin features will āno longer include calling, messaging, A ⦠ā Read more
Axiomtek Introduces ROBOX300 Fanless Robotics Controller for Industrial AMRs with ROS/ROS 2 Support
Axiomtek has introduced the ROBOX300, a compact and energy-efficient robotics controller designed for Autonomous Mobile Robots. Powered by the Intel Core i5-1145G7E processor with a 15W TDP, it supports a 9 to 60 VDC input range and features a rugged, fanless design for industrial use. Ā As of this publication date, the ROBOX300 is only [ā¦] ā Read more
Three years of ephemeral NixOS: my experience resetting root on every boot
We had a bit of a bug caused by changes we made to make quotes look better, but weāve fixed it now, so weāre back on track (you may need to do a force-reload in your browser). Sorry for the disruption ā and if you want to stay up-to-date on such issues next time it (inevitably) happens, you should follow the OSNews Fedi account (or just bookmark it without following it, if youāre not ⦠ā Read more
[ANN] Vienna meetup sponsored by WizardSwap.io, organised by OrangeFren.com
- Date: Friday the 21st of February 2025 @ 18:00 local time
- Location: District Working & Event Venue, Donau-City-StraĆe 3, 1220 Wien
- Tickets: free
Link: https://orangefren.com/event/21
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[ANN] Istanbul Monero Meetup - Monero ve DaÄıtık Borsalara EriÅim: RetoSwap
Date/Time: Thursday, January 30, 2025 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM GMT+3
Location: Altcointurk Trader Base & Cloak Blockchain Academy
MoneroTurko is hosting a Monero Meetup event in Istanbul to discuss Decentralized Exchanges and how it affects Monero.
Link: https://www.meetup.com/moneroturko-istanbul/events/305699269
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